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Does PING check DNS server
Sometimes when you ping a hostname of a computer inside the network, even when it is offline it will show the IP address that's mapped to hostname
Sometimes you ping hostname , it does not show the IP address, it just fails to connect to the hostname
I wonder if PING checks DNS first before it checks network connectivity ?
Thanks
Sometimes you ping hostname , it does not show the IP address, it just fails to connect to the hostname
I wonder if PING checks DNS first before it checks network connectivity ?
Thanks
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I have to imagine that you aren't on a peer-to-peer network. But, just to be complete, in that case you won't get a return for a local computer using nslookup. But, you will get Name Service and an IP address with ping.
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If I ping a hostname when it is offline and if I do not see the mapped IP address then I know that it does not have a record in DNS, because later on if I use Nslookup it does not find the hostname..
I believe PING checks both DNS and the connectivity.